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    Steam Locomotives: CN 5250(4-6-2)
    Date: 7/29/1956 - Location: Palmerston, Ontario, CA
     
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    ATSF 5251 at San Bernardino, CA - 2/7/85 Santa Fe SDF40-2 5251 rolled out of EMD's La Grange, IL, factory in November 1974 as Amtrak SDP40F 511.
    Amtrak traded several of these passenger units to the Santa Fe in order to acquire some needed switch engines in 1984.
    ATSF 5251 eventually became BNSF 6961 before retirement.
     
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    Canadian National Railways steam locomotive 5252 with a smoke deflector on the front sides, right side.
     
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    British Railways 5253 (RF) L/E backing out of St Pancras 17/3/57
     
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    Locomotives: ATSF 5254(SDF40-2)
    Date: 5/1/1993 - Location: Stoddard, Wisconsin, USA.
     
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    Maidstone and District Scania BR111 5255 KKO 255P at Chatham area in 1977 - May 1977
     
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    PLAYMOBIL City Action 5256 - TELESCOPIC TROLLEY WITH DRIVER
     
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    5257 Class 2-8-0T passes through Cardiff General with an eastbouynd coal train, 1956.
     
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    Steam Locomotive 5258 - Ex-GWR Churchward Class 5205 2-8-0 tank engine
     
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    lner 5259 departs Worksop
     
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    42xx tank locomotive no. 5260 - 2-8-0 locomotive seen here at Swindon Works.
     
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    B-5261 Shanghai Airlines Boeing 737-76D(WL)
     
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    GWR Steam Locomotive 5262 at Cardiff in 1956
     
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    CN5263 - It's been a long time since a consist like this graced the likes of the Albreda Sub. CN SD40-2Ws 5263, 5265 and 5298 muscle an empty ballast train away from Fitzwilliam after meeting a pair of eastbound.
     
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    Ex-Great Central 4-4-2 Class C4/4 No 5264 passes Willoughby cabin.
     
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    Walter A. Peters of Springfield captured this view of 4-6-2 No. 5266 ringing her bell at East St. Louis. The photo predates September 1938, when the Alton retired her. No. 5266 was the only member of the P-11 class, originally the Chicago & Alton's class I-2 No. 601. She had 80-inch drivers and 22x28-inch cylinders, and the 200-pound boiler pressure common to virtually all the Alton's Pacific type locomotives. No. 5266 weighed in at a mere 100 tons, and her slim boiler and high drivers gave her a rakish look. When erected by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1903 she apparently lacked a superheater, but was later fitted with 850 square feet of superheating surface, reducing her normal evaporative heating surface from 3435 to 3100 square feet.
     
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    LNER (GREAT CENTRAL) CLASS C4 4-4-2 NO. 5267 ATLANTIC
     
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    LMS 5MT 4-6-0 No 5268, one of Stanier's ubiquitous Black 5s, is seen raising steam whilst standing in line with other engines at Saltley shed on 14th Aug 1937. Built by Armstrong Whitworth in October 1936 No 5268 remained to the very end of steam being withdrawn in August 1968 from Carnforth shed to be scrapped in February 1969 by G Cohen of Cargo Fleet, Middlesborough.
     
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    Prince of Wales at Aberystwyth DCN5269
    Vale of Rheidol Railway 2-6-2T No. 9 Prince of Wales (as GWR 1213) sits at Aberystwyth Station with the second train of the day to Devil's Bridge.
     
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